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After being shown on Fox News, uploaded as cellphone video to YouTube, and then reported on WWL TV, New Orleans, this story's gone viral:Outrage after TSA pats down 6-year-old at N.O. AirportNEW ORLEANS -- Some civil rights advocates are outraged after a 6-year-old girl received an intense pat-down at Armstrong International Airport security on April 5. ... Someone caught the pat-down on video,

According to this CNN report, your television may be watching you, sort of, through your cable box: what you watch on TV can give advertisers insight into who you are and what you're likely to buy. Armed with the data collected from viewers' cable boxes about their viewing tastes, an advertiser can send commercials to a television screen customized to the interests of viewers in a specific home

"Show me your friends and I'll tell you who you are." That's one of those sayings we hear repeated and consider wise. You could probably come up with any number of similar quotes that suggest we can discern the nature and character of a person by what they say, do, wear, and even who they marry. Common sense right?But what if the person judging who you are is not looking at you in the real world

CNN reports that Gene Cooley has been "awarded $404,000 for libelous internet postings surrounding the death of his fiancee." The Chicago Sun Times says that shortly after the death of Cooley's fiancée, who was shot to death by her ex-husband, "an anonymous poster hiding behind six user names labeled Cooley, among other things, a pervert and a drug user." He lived in a small town, Blairsville, Ga

More than likely, any attempt to remove your personal data from Spokeo.com will only result in Spokeo having more information about you.Everytime I look around on Facebook lately, someone is posting a warning about Spokeo.com, the same website discussed in the video above. Spokeo is a personal information aggregator promoting itself as a search engine with the tagline "not your grandma's phone

Remember the old saying, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean nobody's following you"? Well, now, given the many security cameras in stores, RFID tags in clothing, trackers attached to shopping carts, the next time you get that creepy feeling that someone's watching, you'll probably be right.